Foundations of Assessment
This is the systematic process of gathering information to make educational decisions.
What is assessment?
This federal law mandates nondiscriminatory, multidisciplinary assessment, as well as outlining all 13 eligibility categories.
What is IDEA (IDEIA)?
These types of assessments compare a child's score to a group of similar peers.
What are norm-referenced assessments?
This person coordinates with parents, services providers, and general education teacher(s) to schedule IEP meetings and review assessment results.
Who is the case manager?
This section will inform the reader of whether this was a parent request, school site recommendation, or a triennial review.
What in the reason for referral?
What is a child's educational needs?
According to the law, this must be obtained before a school conducts an evaluation.
What is parental consent?
The WIAT-4, the WJ-IV, and the K-TEA.
What are examples of formal academic achievement tests?
This term refers to a modification that does not change what the test measures, but supports the student (i.e., extended time).
What is an accommodation?
This section of the report describes major life events, educational history, family context, or relevant health history.
What is the background information?
The principle that assessments must measure what they claim to measure?
60 days.
What is the amount of time the assessment team has to complete the evaluation about the AP is signed?
This type of assessment includes interviews, observations, and rating scales.
What are informal assessments?
According to the manual, a trained professional.
Who is allowed to administer standardized assessments?
Clear, concise, data-based, professional, but parent-friendly, and in the third person.
What type of language should be used when writing these reports?
This term refers to the consistency of stability of test results over time.
What is reliability?
This legal document must use assessment data to guide goals, placement, and services for a student with a qualifying eligibility.
What is an IEP?
An assessment where the evaluator adjusts the level of prompting or assistance.
What is dynamic assessment?
Some forms that are mostly commonly used are standard and percentile.
What are types of scores are used?
A report must include these actionable items, based directly on assessment results, that can largely be implemented by the classroom teacher.
What are recommendations (accommodations)?
This document should be provided to parents at every IEP meeting, and is usually sent along with draft copies of reports/IEPs.
What are Procedural Safeguards or Parents Rights?
This court case set the precedent that students must be assessed in their native language, to the extent the district is able, which is crucial for identifying learning challenges in English language learners by comparing their competence in their native language versus English, allowing for a more accurate diagnosis of needs.
What was the Maria v. CA Board of Education ruling(1970)?
Educators engage in this process of gathering and analyzing information from various sources—like test scores, behavioral observations, and student portfolios—to form a comprehensive picture and make well-informed instructional decisions.
What is using multiple measures?
This term refers to the scoring procedure that ensures consistency among multiple evaluators.
What is inter-rater reliability?
This section goes over the subtests, describing for the readers of what each of these portions of the test would have looked like.
What is the test-by-test analysis?